Originally posted by: Dahui321 I see NOAA has buoy 41116 up and running.

Currently 5'@ 9 sec.

We are no longer blind !!!!!!

Any idea how it is being funded/maintained, and for how long???

Looks like it's funded by Scripps, Like the ft Pierce one 41114 and canaveral 41113, and fernandina 41112. Probably why they renamed it. Only has wave size/period and water temps. no wind but we'll take whatever we can get for sure! Maybe scripps is taking over the whole program and the gov't is paying them??

Originally posted by: Dahui321 I see NOAA has buoy 41116 up and running.

Currently 5'@ 9 sec.

We are no longer blind !!!!!!

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Any idea how it is being funded/maintained, and for how long???

Looks like it's funded by Scripps, Like the ft Pierce one 41114 and canaveral 41113, and fernandina 41112. Probably why they renamed it. Only has wave size/period and water temps. no wind but we'll take whatever we can get for sure! Maybe scripps is taking over the whole program and the gov't is paying them??

For what its worth my neighbor is recently retired from the Melbourne office of the NWS, I saw him today and he said that the 41116 is being paid for by SpaceX. For how long he does not know. As rc pointed out the location is very close to 41009 and my neighbor called it at 3 nautical miles. His opinion is why bother redeploying 41009 when they could use that asset somewhere else, but that is just his opinion and nothing more. Obviously we could use the wind info that 41009 provides. Anyway, that's what I heard.